[PATCH] Allow to use different prefixes for jemalloc-specific functions and libc functions

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:36:23PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:49:07AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:49:33PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote:
> > > I went a slightly different direction with this and added --with-mangling:
> > > 
> > >   http://www.canonware.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=jemalloc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a5489e37da88a1a50fbf8552e0d3a7f8fd93ffc
> > > 
> > > Please let me know if this fails to meet your needs for some reason.
> > 
> > The fact that --with-jemalloc-prefix overrides anything set with
> > --with-mangling makes it unconvenient for our usecase, where we want to
> > prefix with je_ except a few functions we want to either not prefix (on
> > desktop) or wrap (on android). Sure, we can use --with-mangling to set
> > the je_ prefix, but that won't cover new APIs when they appear.
> 
> In fact, --with-mangling doesn't work at all. Everything stays as #under
> in jemalloc.h.

I wasn't looking at the right file, but in fact the problem is that all
${public_syms} are re-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, even when
--with-jemalloc-prefix is not used.

Mike